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Science and technology: NASA decides to add shuttle mission to service Hubble telescope

NASA announced on Tuesday that it will add a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA TV.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced the plans for a fifth servicing mission to Hubble during a meeting with agency employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Goddard is the agency center responsible for managing Hubble.

"We have conducted a detailed analysis of the performance and procedures necessary to carry out a successful Hubble repair mission over the course of the last three shuttle missions. What we have learned has convinced us that we are able to conduct a safe and effective servicing mission to Hubble," Griffin said.

"While there is an inherent risk in all spaceflight activities, the desire to preserve a truly international asset like the Hubble Space Telescope makes doing this mission the right course of action," he added.

The flight is tentatively targeted for launch during the spring to fall of 2008. Mission planners are working to determine the best location and vehicle in the manifest to support the needs of Hubble while minimizing impact to International Space Station assembly. ..
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Video Games: Halo 3 Video Game, Coming soon

Microsoft announced that in the spring of 2007 will invite the players to prove, through Internet, the characteristics multiplayer of its hoped video game “HALO 3”.

The test will be available for the video consoles Xbox 360 and it will be possible to be acceded to her through service of games in the Network Xbox Live. Microsoft affirmed that it will consider the reaction of the users to give I touch end to the third delivery of the successful game...
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Video Games: War of the titans Microsoft Xbox 360 vs. Sony PlayStation 3

The road to the next generation in home-console gaming could have been subtitled A Tale of Two Marketing Strategies. Microsoft's Xbox 360 had its own viral marketing campaign (via Ourcolony.net, the sanctioned source of many leaked photos preceding its launch) and rode a glitzy wave of publicity that encompassed high-profile keynote speeches and a star-studded MTV special. Meanwhile, aside from sporadic press releases touting the power of the company's next-generation Cell processor, we heard little to nothing from Sony and its highly anticipated PlayStation 3; fans hoping for "official" leaks of teaser images and hard specs were left disappointed. ..
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